The company at the centre of the food fraud scandal in China back in August that saw out of date meat repackaged and sold to McDonald’s, KFC and other major restaurant chains will see 340 of it’s 500 workforce cut.
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16% of fish sold as cod or haddock in fish shops in the UK is actually a cheaper kind of fish. That was the rather concerning findings found by the consumer watchdog group Which? earlier this month.
With the continuing EU ban on importing mangos and other fresh fruit from India, Pakistan is trying to fill the new gap in the market.
Ask a few people what they think about genetic modification (GM) and it won’t take long for you to get a negative answer such as it is unnatural, or we don’t know what eating these foods might do to us.
The latest round of beef testing has been completed and the results are in, of 2,622 samples tested within Europe, only 16 have come back positive for traces of horse meat.
Rice is a staple food of most of Asia and is also present in many of our baby foods here in Europe.
That depends who you ask. Ask the main author of the FSA commissioned report in 2009 or the authors of the 2012 study and they will tell you no. But ask Prof. Leifert and the other authors of a new paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition this month…
Have you ever wondered while sipping on your donkey milk if maybe someone has adulterated it cow milk? Surprising, me neither, but this could be a serious problem for people with allergies to cow milk who have opted for donkey milk instead. Using Isoelectric Focusing and ELISA two Italian scientists…
An interesting publication for you published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition earlier this month talks about the lack of animal protein for feeding the world’s growing population.
Reported in the science magazine New Scientist last week, scientists from The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project have created an American chestnut that is resistant to the blight has all but wiped it out in most of the US.